Firefox is too old on Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS

[Aymeric]

Firefox 3.6.23 is too old on Ubuntu LTS 10.04.3 stable and it can't display some website correctly.
Look screen-shot in attachment or do it yourself by visiting this website (fr) http://www.firasofting.com/blog/2011/dennis-ritchie-est-mort-et-tout-le-monde-sen-fout/

Updating to Firefox 7.0.1 from PPA fix the problems, but you can't neither say to John Doe upgrade manually Firefox using a PPA nor upgrade Ubuntu (remember the meaning of LTS ;-))!

Maybe this website isn't w3 valid (I haven't check) but it's display correctly on Chromium, on Firefox 7.0.1 (on the same LTS, using PPA mozillateam) (and even on the bad and ugly Internet Explorer!) and saying to John Doe family's "Yes, until yesterday you was using Firefox at home, at your work, anywhere, you've synced all of your bookmarks/password/etc using firefox-sync, but because of Firefox in Ubuntu isn't up to date you should now use Chromium/Opera/Other." isn't a solution!

Regards,
Aymeric.

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test@LTS:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid
test@LTS:~$ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 3.6.23+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
  Candidate: 3.6.23+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 3.6.23+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 0
        500 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
test@LTS:~$

[madbiologist (me-again)]

I cant reproduce this here on Firefox 3.6.23 on Ubuntu LTS 10.04.3, although the background is a little wrong. See attached screenshot.

[madbiologist (me-again)]

The big philosophical question here is should operating system vendors/users have to upgrade their web browsers to a newer version, or should web sites be written to support older browsers which are still supported by the browser's manufacturer (I'm not suggesting web sites support Firefox 3.0 which is no longer supported by Mozilla)?

[madbiologist (me-again)]

What extensions are you using? If you are using noscript, try disabling it.

[Aymeric (mulx)]

I just try again and I get the same screenshot as you madbiologist, probably a change by the website author.
But anyway I haven't any add-on, I'm on a clean installation of Ubuntu.
In fact, that was a friend of mine who said "I didn't understand your link, I use Ubuntu 10.04." since he didn't have a LP account, I've installed an Ubuntu 10.04 on VirtualBox to find where the bug come from.

I understand the philosophical problem, but why chromiun-browser was still updated from upstream and no Firefox?

Firefox is version 3.6 and this branch isn't supported anymore by Mozilla but Ubuntu still provide it, and Chromium Browser is version 15 into the repository because the older release aren't supported anymore by chromium team.
You do not feel there is a problem there?

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Firefox 3.6 is very much supported by Mozilla at the moment and there will be a 3.6.24 release on Tuesday. We will be transitioning to the rapid release cycle at some point, we're just not sure right now if that's Firefox 8, 9, 10, or a later release.

[Aymeric (mulx)]

I'm closing this bug since Ubuntu 10.04 is in EOL state and also because Firefox was upgraded from Mozilla Release for more 1yr now...